Premier Li congratulates Albanese on election win

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang wrote to congratulate Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on his election victory, which some Australian media reported yesterday was a thawing of bilateral

Duterte hits Putin: I kill criminals, not children, elders

Outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sharply criticized Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the killings of innocent civilians in Ukraine, saying while the two of them have

Biden launches Indo-Pacific trade deal, warns over inflation

President Joe Biden launched a new trade deal with 12 Indo-Pacific nations yesterday aimed at strengthening their economies as he warned Americans worried about high inflation

China becomes wild card in Sri Lanka’s debt crisis

China says its initiative to build ports and other infrastructure across Asia and Africa, paid for with Chinese loans, will boost trade. But in a cautionary

Pyongyang boasts recovery as WHO worries over missing data

North Korea yesterday added hundreds of thousands of infections to its growing pandemic caseload but also said that a million people have already recovered from suspected

Morrison won’t say who might attend Tokyo summit

Australia's opposition leader Anthony Albanese said yesterday that he will begin rebuilding trust in his nation if he wins weekend elections and attends a summit with

Activists ask top court to void Marcos Jr’s presidential win

Human rights activists have asked the Philippine Supreme Court to block Congress from proclaiming Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the next president, alleging that he lied when he

Authorities report another fever surge amid Covid-19 crisis

North Korea yesterday reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 and encouraged good health habits, as a mass outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated

Kim blasts pandemic response as outbreak surges

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticized officials over slow medicine deliveries and mobilized the military to respond to a surge in suspected COVID-19 infections, as

Former Australian envoy says Sydney’s lost Pacific trust

A former Australian envoy to the Solomons Islands has accused Australia’s government of losing the trust of South Pacific island countries and of ushering in greater

Okinawa marks 50 years of end to US rule amid protests

Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki yesterday urged Japan’s central government to do more to reduce the U.S. military presence in the southern island group as it marked the

Allies of Marcos Jr. set to dominate Congress

Allies of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the presumptive next president of the Philippines, appear set to dominate both chambers of Congress, further alarming activists after the late

Suicide bomber kills six, gunmen kill two Sikhs in NW Pakistan

A suicide bombing near a security forces vehicle killed three soldiers and three children in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan yesterday, while gunmen shot dead two

North Korea confirms first outbreak, Kim orders lockdown

North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown yesterday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely doubted claim

Marcos Jr. presidency complicates US efforts to counter China

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s landslide victory in the Philippine presidential election is raising immediate concerns about a further erosion of democracy in Asia and could complicate American efforts

Marcos Jr. won presidency, unofficial count shows

The namesake son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos appeared to have been elected Philippine president by a landslide in an astonishing reversal of the 1986 “People

Sailors seize USD82M of cocaine floating off port

Sailors deployed to secure travel during the Eid al-Fitr holiday made Indonesia’s biggest cocaine seizure after finding plastic packages of the drugs floating at sea, the

Debate sparks over China’s interest in election

Australia's defense policy debate heated up when the defense minister said there was evidence that the Chinese Communist Party wanted Australia’s government to change at the May

North fires ballistic missile amid rising animosities

North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters yesterday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed

Foreign reserves at record low, politics in crisis

Sri Lanka’s economy is in dire straits with its usable foreign reserves down to less than $50 million, the country’s finance minister said yesterday. Ali

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